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Bay Company'^ employes, are the only persons who have 

 traversed its soil, and the only value" to be derived from 

 it, arises from its Furs and Fisheries. Before reviewing 

 this distpct, it will be well to say a few words relative to 

 the Island of Anticosti, on which, though there are no 

 rivers of any magnitude, the Jupiter being the largest, 

 yet it possesses many of smaller size ; and its inlets, bays 

 and creeks around the whole coast, swarm with large 

 quantities of Salmon. 



The following incident will shew the vast quantities of 

 Salmon that formerly swarmed these shores. A H. B. 

 Company's schooner was fitted up with the* necessaries 

 for prosecuting the fishery during the season. They made 

 their way to one of the lower fishing stations, where they 

 expected to load the vessel in about a month or five weeks, 

 Arrived at the bay, they prepared their nets; their first 

 catch was the produce of an afternoon's tide, and to their 

 , utter astonishment and surprise, they found that they'had 

 taken between 500 and 600 fish. Successive tides gave 

 fish in abundance, and scarce a week had elapsed, when 

 their barrels were filled, their salt all expended, and they, 

 on their return to the Post from whence they came. Such 

 was the quantity of fish taken in former years. I have 

 heard of 500 having been taken by seine in Barnpool, at 

 the mouth of the river Tamer, but never have I heard of 

 so successfnl a catch as that of Morin of the H. B. Com- 

 pany. 



Thus much for the past, now for the present: Be- 

 hold the white shores of Ance au Sablon, let us hasten 

 ashore at the little bay that lies above us. Here is a 

 fishing station, and the men at their nets. Let us ques^ 



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